making characters disappear

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Feb23.170142.538 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
> That is because it SHOULD be possible to do such very common things
> as non-echo reading or reading single characters without terminating
> carriage returns.

Even on operating systems that don't support such operations?

> We should be discussing how to put this into the
> next standardized version of the language. It SHOULD have been in the
> present version. 

No, it should be in an O/S independent extension library, somewhere between
X3J11 and 1003.1.
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